Here’s a video from Nick Hall, the chair of Clannet, a not-for-profit association formed in 2004 to deliver broadband to rural areas in Yorkshire. You can read more about them on their website: http://www.clannet.co.uk/.

Homes and businesses in four rural English counties are to get superfast broadband connections.

Devon and Somerset will share £30m of government funding for the roll-out, Norfolk will get £15m and Wiltshire £4m.

Each area will also get cash from their council and private investors.

A further announcement is expected later this year on superfast broadband funding for every local authority in the country.

The Devon and Somerset bid, with support from Plymouth, North Somerset and Torbay Councils, was one of only three to get the go ahead from the government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) Unit. Continue reading→